Dr. David Fajgenbaum

They did blood work.

And, you know, I had worked in that ER just a few months before.

And doctors are usually really slow to come back.

And it's like, you know, things take a while unless there's something really wrong.

And they come back really quickly.

The doctor came back really quickly.

And he told me, he said, David, he said, your liver, your kidneys, your bone marrow, your heart, and your lungs are shutting down.

We have to hospitalize you right away.

Yeah, there's like your brains left.

But like pretty soon that was going to not be as clear.

Right.

But yeah, it's this concept called multiple organ system failure where everything was shutting down.

And so they hospitalized me and I just just went downhill from there.

I started getting really sick really quickly and I knew things were bad.

And the doctors were using the language that I had used when I talked to patients when things were really bad.

You know, we've run a lot of tests and we're on top of things, but we're not really in a position yet to tell you exactly what we think is happening.

And it took a total of about 11 weeks before we finally made the diagnosis.

And...

With that diagnosis came almost immediate use of a type of chemotherapy.

Oh, yes, yes.